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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jeffrey Walton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> I think the documentation leaves a lot to be desired... I'm trying to
> tell someone what version of Cygwin I am using.
>
> There's a FAQ item at
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version. It gives this
> useless advice:
>
>    To find the version of the Cygwin DLL installed, you can use uname
>    as on Linux
>


$ uname -r
3.1.5(0.340/5/3)

This is what I always do

- Eric L